cc-tapis, Italian producer of up to date handmade artisan rugs, continues to collaborate with among the greatest skills in design. Throughout Milan Design Week 2023, a number of groundbreaking methods and design approaches have been launched that additional broaden prospects throughout the business. New collaborations with Formafantasma and Objects of Frequent Curiosity, alongside 2023 collections by Patricia Urquiola and Bethan Laura Wooden made their debut. There was additionally a site-specific set up at Chiesa di San Celso that featured the Le Arcs assortment by Charlotte Perriand, lastly delivered to life.
Moire, Objects of Frequent Curiosity Picture: Michele Foti Artwork Route: Motel 409
Moiré Assortment
In Moiré, Objects of Frequent Curiosity – Eleni Petaloti and Leonidas Trampoukis – shares its tackle the pure moiré-like patterns that may be discovered within the grain and rings of wooden, erosion, and decomposition. The gathering juxtaposes the modern, the normal, and the experimental by the visuals the duo noticed in nature. OoCI mixed these research with three unconventional monochromatic shapes that broaden in all instructions, appearing as an ever-evolving sample.
Moire, Objects of Frequent Curiosity Picture: Michele Foti Artwork Route: Motel 409
In a primary for cc-tapis, a posh two-century-old jacquard approach was introduced into play that’s hardly ever utilized in rug making. The strategy was used to create three rug designs: Zig-zag, Splash, and Quadratic. “The three shapes are virtually like cutouts of an limitless panorama, frozen moments in time, samples extracted to be studied up shut,” mentioned Petaloti and Trampoukis.
The design displays gentle, an impact achieved by combining wool and Tencel – a sustainable fiber which has a shine much like silk. Jacquard weaving permits for designs which might be close to not possible to create utilizing cc-tapis’ Tibetan hand-knotting methods, making Moiré a actuality.
Moire, Objects of Frequent Curiosity Picture: Mattia Greghi
Telegram Assortment, Formafantasma Picture: Michele Foti Artwork Route: Motel 409
Telegram Assortment
Formafantasma introduces its Telegram assortment of rugs, woven with private messages chosen by the rug makers themselves. Past the handmade facet, these rugs name out the person behind the creation.
“We needed to take away the veil between us and the makers,” mentioned Formafantasma’s Simone Farresin and Andrea Trimarchi. “It’s the start of a dialogue, as a substitute of merely a completed product.”
Telegram Assortment, Formafantasma Picture: Michele Foti Artwork Route: Motel 409
Formafantasma posed a number of inquiries to the artisans: The place they arrive from, what they see out the window as they work, a favourite band, and extra – which revealed private features of every craft individual’s life that grew to become motifs. Utilizing a restrained shade palette, every rug represents names, locations, and ideas that every maker holds expensive.
Telegram Assortment, Formafantasma Picture: Mattia Greghi
Pipeline Assortment, Patricia Urquiola Picture: Michele Foti Artwork Route: Motel 409
Pipeline Assortment
Patricia Urquiola reveals her Pipeline assortment of digitally generated tubular paintings that has been reworked into artisan-made rugs and wall hangings. A collection of related tubes emerge from the floor of every rug, making a maze of shade with loads of quantity and depth. Round shapes create motion, overlapping layers of Himalayan wool and highlighting the house outlined by the tubes.
Artisans rethought the unique Pipeline designs for each horizontal and vertical functions, blurring the road between design and artwork. Some tubes all however develop from the floor of by pile heights!
Pipeline Assortment, Patricia Urquiola Picture: Mattia Greghi
Pipeline Assortment, Patricia Urquiola Picture: Mattia Greghi
Guadalupe Assortment, Bethan Laura Wooden Picture: Michele Foti Artwork Route: Motel 409
Guadalupe Assortment
Bethan Laura Wooden debuts her Guadalupe assortment, impressed by the 1974 stained-glass home windows of the famed church of Our Girl of Guadalupe positioned in Mexico Metropolis. Utilizing her personal archive of “public patterns” collected throughout travels, Wooden applies shade, texture, symbols, and element to seize the graphic shapes of the church’s stained-glass home windows. Rhythmic and expressive, the patterns loosely resemble custom Otomi embroidery on every hand-knotted piece made with Himalayan wool, linen, silk, and aloe.
Guadalupe Assortment, Bethan Laura Wooden Picture: Mattia Greghi
Guadalupe Assortment, Bethan Laura Wooden Picture: Mattia Greghi
Les Arcs Assortment, Charlotte Perriand Picture: Alejandro Ramirez Orozco
Les Arcs Assortment
Designed by Charlotte Perriand in 1972, this assortment is lastly having its second. Created for the Les Arcs ski station within the French Alps, she meant to incorporate textile panels within the interiors, however budgetary constraints nixed the plan. After 50+ years, cc-tapis labored with custodians of the Charlotte Perriand archive to provide life to the designs.
Colour is the central theme, and cc-tapis was challenged in reproducing Perriand’s 12-shade palette. Every shade – with the exceptions of black and white – was created by hand utilizing an abrash dying approach. The gathering of 5 knotted rugs have been made completely by hand in Nepal by Tibetan artisans.
Les Arcs Assortment, Charlotte Perriand Picture: Alejandro Ramirez Orozco
Offered within the San Celso church, Milan-based curator and set-designer Michela Croci, took benefit of the church inviting guests to have interaction within the house from the ground to ceiling, introducing a brand new perspective on rugs. “My ambition was to work on a purely imaginative stage, elevating the rugs from a purely home dimension,” Croci mentioned.
To study extra about cc-tapis and the model’s newest collections, go to cc-tapis.com.
